Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: Aksamala

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This week's page from Hindu Dharma is "Aksamala" from "Siksa" at http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part6/chap8.htm, which is attached with this email. Here are the first few lines from this page:

'Rudraksa' means the eye of Rudra or Siva. 'Rudraksa-mala' is a 'garland' (or rosary) made up of such 'eyes'. 'Aksa' means eye. In Tamil the rudraksa is called 'tirukkanmani'[ the sacred pupil of the eye] What is the meaning of 'aksamala' or 'sphatika-aksamala'? Here the word 'aksa' is not taken to mean the eye but the... (see attachment for more)

 

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Hindu Dharma is a translation of two volumes of the well known Tamil Book "Deivatthin Kural", which, in turn, is a book of 6 volumes that contains talks of His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji of Kanchipuram. The entire book is available online at www.kamakoti.org .